GERO 4346 - Family in Late Life

Three credit hours.

Family life of the elderly, including late-life marital relationships, widowhood and living alone, and relations with children, grandchildren, siblings, and other kin. Alternative and innovative lifestyles, family neglect and abuse of the elderly, and demographic and structural changes in the family and society that affect these matters. Exploration of dynamic and therapeutic models of family problems and processes to provide a foundation of concepts for later training in counseling families with elderly members. The family as a natural support system for the elderly, along with the potential and limitations of such a system in the context of community support networks, will be core concepts. Dual listed in the Graduate Catalog as GERO 5346.

Prerequisites: GERO 2300.